ABSTRACT
The imaging systems today comprise of several components from image capture to imageoutputting, merging in many cases silver halide photography systems with digital imagingsystems. Some imaging systems are still following only the silver halide route (film camera, film processing and printing in a darkroom) while other systems follow only the digital
imaging route (digital camera, image processing, display, digital printing). This chapter focuses
on computer-based digital imaging. It starts with a basic overview on the computer workstation
and continues with the scanner as an input device. Digital cameras have been described in detail
in Chapter 2. It continues with the display as an output device, focusing on the cathode-ray tube
(CRT) and liquid crystal display (LCD) technologies and finally on the digital printers.
